Companies have managed products a certain way for a long time because it works. You should manage your job search like companies manage products.....figure out who you are, what you want to do, and then market yourself accordingly.

I use Trello to manage several parts of my business. It's free for very small personal and business uses, and it's easy to use. I used to use spreadsheets to manage this kind of data, but Trello is much better for list and super lite process/project management.